Blake's Innocence and Experience. A Study of the Songs and Manuscripts..

  • 1928
By Wicksteed, Joseph
1928. London and Toronto: Dent, (and New York: Dutton,) 1928.

Small thick 4to, 301 pp., with 4 color plates, 55 monochrome plates, and 20 reproductions from manuscripts. Original green cloth lettered in gilt, original printed dust-jacket, backstrip browned, otherwise a fine copy.

§ First edition of an attractive and well-produced book with fine illustrations. Only the second copy I have ever seen in the dust-jacket, and the first copy of the British edition (the other was the NY of the same year). Presentation copy inscribed by Wicksteed: "To Patrick Macleod with love from Joseph H. Wicksteed Aug. 9 1951". Bentley, Blake Books, 2954.

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Title

Blake's Innocence and Experience. A Study of the Songs and Manuscripts..

Author

Wicksteed, Joseph

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Date

1928


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